Wales

u3a News from around Wales

Interu3a quiz

An invitation is offered to teams from Wales to join in the Interu3a quiz which is held on the last Wednesday of every month on Zoom. Teams from all over the UK take part bu no one from Wales as yet. Full details here: Interu3a quiz

The Third Age Trust’s Short Story Competition … and the Gilwern Phenomenon.

Huge congratulations to Harriet Hall of the Gilwern u3a Writing group, who won first prize in this year’s UK-wide short story competition. Harriet’s Story was a take on what became of Cinderella….was it really a case of happy ever after? The story will be printed in the next edition of Third Age Matters magazine, plus an artist’s illustration, prepared for Harriet as part of her prize.

This follows the successes of Gilwern’s Writing group leader Kay Blackwell & group member Lynda O’Keefe in the 2021 Wales u3a short story competition. Both had stories shortlisted, & Lynda’s won third prize. The amazing thing is that this Writing group was only set up during lockdown, & has just four members, the fourth being Bev Woodman. In Spring 2020, the pandemic closed u3a activities, so Gilwern’s Committee published a fortnightly on-line newsletter for the membership. As well as giving phone numbers and information, there were four main contributors of articles and stories: Kay Blackwell, Harriet Hall, Lynda O’Keefe and Bev Woodman - none of the four knew each other. By early 2021, need for the newsletter decreased, but Kay volunteered to start a Creative Writing Group and approached the other three. The rest, as they say, is history!

• View the 2022 National Competition Winners and read the winning stories on the u3a National website.

• The Wales u3a short stories 2021 collection is still available which contains the three winning stories in 2021 together with those of all the other finalists.

Wales Regional Newsletter from the Wales Trustee

Download: Wales Regional Newsletter (November 2022)

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Interested in Philosophy?

Whether or not you have any qualifications, you might like to join a Google discussion Group set up for "u3a Philosophy in Wales". It has a wide remit and presumes no grounding in the topic. If you want to know more (or what a Google Group is!), please email Roger Boyle (of Aberystwyth u3a) roger@rogerdboyle.eu and ask.

Shared Learning Projects

There have been two major Shared Learning project run in Wales. You can find out more about the projects:

• Castles Shared Learning Project
• Wales Coastline and Border Celebration